Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 1 - Administration
Chapter 12 - Facilities and Local Units
Article 12 - General Provisions
7 AAC 12.840 - Supervision and direction of laboratory service

(a) A laboratory must be under the supervision and direction of a physician, a laboratory specialist, or a medical technologist who

(b) If a medical technologist supervises the laboratory under contract, a consulting physician or laboratory specialist supervising the laboratory under contract must make quarterly visits to the laboratory and prepare a written evaluation with recommendations to the administrator and medical staff of the facility after each visit. For a consulting physician, up to two of the required visits and evaluations each year may be made by the physician's representative, who must be a medical technologist competent in one or more laboratory specialties. If a medical technologist supervises a laboratory as an employee of the laboratory, a consulting physician or a laboratory specialist under contract must make at least biannual visits to the laboratory and prepare a written evaluation and recommendations after each visit.

(c) In this section, "laboratory specialties" include microbiology, serology, chemistry, hematology, and immunohematology.